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		<title>Dubai Detour</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 05:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The month began with a cruise ship gig. Specifically a monster of a four-ship, twelve-country, fly-all-over-the-damn-world-doing-magic-for-wealthy-septuagenarians cruise ship gig. The schedule: fly from LA to Hong Kong. Get on a ship that ends up in Vietnam via Cambodia. Fly Vietnam to New Zealand. Ship from Auckland to Dunedin. Fly from there to Mauritius, off the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Things Said to Me on Cruise Ships</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2019 07:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#34;I'm a private detective,&#34; said Dirk. &#34;Oh?&#34; said Kate in surprise, and then looked puzzled. &#34;Does that bother you?&#34; &#34;It's just that I have a friend who plays the double bass.&#34; &#34;I see.&#34; &#34;Whenever people meet him and he's struggling around with it, they all say the same thing, and it drives him crazy. They [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Two Magicians, One Mic.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2019 09:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in March 2016, a guy called Nick Paul asked me to be a guest on his podcast &#34;Two Magicians One Mic,&#34; in which each month he would interview a different magician about life in the magic industry. Over the course of our interview, Nick and I discovered that we had a lot in common, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Slushening: A Roughly 50% True Story</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 13:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sodium Polyacrylate (known as &#34;slush powder&#34; in the magic industry) is a white powder that can absorb up to 300 times its own weight in water. Half a teaspoon is enough to solidify a large glass of water, tranforming it into a spongy mass with a texture somewhere between jello and snow. It's a fairly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Show Me The Money</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was offered a three month gig in Macau. I accepted it partly for the experience, partly for the stories, but mostly because I needed the money. During employee orientation, the company set us up with accounts at the Bank of China. We would be paid monthly into these accounts in Macanese Patacas, then could [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Shanghaied</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was flying to a cruise ship gig. This was good. I had a one-night transit in Shanghai. This was less good. Sure it sounds fine. Shanghai! A big exciting cosmopolitan city! Even if you get in late and have to leave early, surely it’d be a fun chance to grab dinner or a drink. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>La Cucaracha</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 07:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I check in at Honolulu airport, I think about the live cockroach trapped inside my bag. Neither myself nor the cockroach are happy with the situation. Several hours earlier I'd been on a cruise ship, having just finished a week of shows there, and was hastily packing my suitcase before the airport shuttle arrived. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Three Months in Macau</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I'm writing this from my dressing room in Macau, which is also going to be my home for the next three months (mainly Macau, but to a large extent the dressing room too). I'm here on a contract with the House of Magic, a new $40 million custom-built magic venue in the Studio City hotel/casino. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Magicians: Life in the Impossible</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 02:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last night I went to the premiere of the documentary Magicians: Life in the Impossible. I've witnessed this movie slowly come together over the past five years, and it was a vicariously cathartic experience to finally see it come to life on the big screen (Full disclosure: I personally know the directors and most of the cast. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Magic Magazine: The Final Issue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2016 18:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons this blog has run largely dormant for the past three years is that I've been preoccupied with writing for MAGIC Magazine. Beginning in January 2014, I've been writing a monthly one-page column called "Walkabout Soup", about, well, all manner of magic-related things. That was ironically one of the toughest things about it; Stan - [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deep Water at IndyFringe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2016 01:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dramatic things happened today at the Indianapolis Fringe Festival. I was doing the 6pm performance of my show Alien of Extraordinary Ability while it rained outside. About two thirds of the way through the one-hour show, the room started flooding. It wasn't a lot of flooding, but the front section of the audience floor was definitely filling up with water. Clearly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stardust on The Street</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Woke up. Yawned. Put on shoes to go and buy milk. Walked to the corner shop on Hollywood Blvd. Found a big crowd blocking the pavement. Wondered what they were there for. Assumed it was some typical blockbuster movie publicity thing. Paused to have a look. RIP David Bowie; 1947 - 2016. It's funny; big [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Last Minute Christmas Theming</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After the success of Simon and Ghostfunkel at the Variety Collective Halloween Special back in October, Dave Lee and I were invited to do a spot at the VC's Christmas special. Well, it's happening two days from now. We have some rough ideas for the set, but as usual with Simon and Davefunkel co-productions, most [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Short, Sweet, and Highly Commended</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 05:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow. I figured the Short and Sweet theatre festival would be fun, interesting, and a good chance to meet some new people and bounce ideas around. That all went as expected. What I didn't expect was to walk away with an award for "Highly Commended New Theatre Work." One of the things that's interesting about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Photos by Homer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 02:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Homer Liwag has a fairly well established reputation for being a goddamn genius. In between his duties as David Copperfield's design director, he's also an amazing magician, magic creator, designer, illustrator, videographer, photographer, and all-round polymath. Though I first heard of Homer though his magic products CoinOne and CoinTwo (which I purchased purely because of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Short and Sweet &#8211; A Short Theatre Festival</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 04:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Short and Sweet is a performing arts festival that celebrates short-form theatre. You know; like a short film festival, but with live theatre pieces rather than films. Long story short, I'm going to be presenting a performance piece there next week. This year's Melbourne Short and Sweet is split into three categories; Dance, Theatre, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Simon and Ghostfunkel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago the Variety Collective held its annual Halloween show. Dave Lee and I agreed to put something halloween-themed together. We had some rough ideas, but nothing concrete. On the morning of the show, we decided that we really should probably actually write something. So, over brunch, we put this together... There was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Variety Collective</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2013 23:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Variety Collective is a weekly variety show in Melbourne. It was formed when a bunch of comedians, magicians, musicians, circus artists, and other unconventional performers decide they want somewhere to strut their stuff for the public. While there are a heap of comedy clubs and live music venues out there, places to see variety [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Five Days in China</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I was hired to perform at a Magic Convention in China. It was one of the weirdest - but also greatest - experiences I've had in a long time. This was the China Beijing Asia College Magic Convention (trust me, it makes more sense in Mandarin). It was a four day event of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Unorthodox Entertainment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Coronel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 03:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A theatre full of orthodox Jews makes for a surprisingly engaging audience. I received a call a couple of months ago from friend, mentor, and 50+ year entertainment industry veteran Chuck Fayne. He wanted to check whether I'd be willing to help out with a charity fundraiser show that he organises each year. The show [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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